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Policy-based application management

  • US 9,213,850 B2
  • Filed: 10/03/2013
  • Issued: 12/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • configuring a first managed application installed on an electronic mobile device to operate in accordance with a set of one or more policy files defined independent of the managed application, wherein each policy file defines one or more access controls enforced by a mobile device management system on the electronic mobile device when the managed application is executing on the electronic mobile device;

    receiving, by processing circuitry of the electronic mobile device, a copy command;

    encrypting, by the processing circuitry and in response to the copy command, original data from the first managed application to form encrypted data, wherein the encrypting is performed based on encryption information identified in the one or more policy files; and

    writing, by the processing circuitry and in response to the copy command, the encrypted data to a secure clipboard residing in memory of the electronic mobile device to enable a second managed application to subsequently read and decrypt the encrypted data from the secure clipboard, the secure clipboard residing at a location of the memory which is different than that of a general clipboard residing in the memory, the general clipboard being accessible by a set of unmanaged applications running on the electronic mobile device, and the secure clipboard being accessible only to a set of one or more managed applications identified by the one or more policy files, wherein the set of one or more managed applications comprises the first and second managed applications.

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